Authors

Dorothy Mules  •  Sylvia Oldroyd  •  Chris Irven  •  Catherine Simmonds et al  •  Keith Walton  •  Sebastian Hayes  •  Arnold Hinchliffe  •  David Grierson  •  JC Sledge  •  Pam Kelly  •  MC Wood

Dorothy Mules née Tabb

Dorothy Tabb was the daughter of a jobbing dressmaker and seaman father who died before he was thirty. She worked as a Primary School teacher in a remote country school in Cornwall before accompanying her husband to the African bush. A well known Shaftesbury personality, she only just missed reaching a hundred and was alert up to the very moment of her death… Read more

See Dorothy Mules’ publications

Sylvia Oldroyd

Sylvia Oldroyd writes : “I cannot remember a time when I was not fascinated by language. Born in the West Riding, I absorbed its speech from my grandmother. My father frequently quoted the Bible and made up humorous rhymes on the spot. A lyrical influence came from my mother’s piano-playing…” Read more

See Sylvia Oldroyd’s publications

Chris Irven

When he was about 9, Christopher Irven became aware that the father was head of a family. For much of the war his father, an army officer, was away and all big decisions seemed to be taken by his mother. As the war was ending, Christopher was taken out of an abusive preparatory school and 18 months later the reunited family left for Kenya… Read more

See Chris Irven’s publications

Catherine Simmonds et al

This group comprises of Catherine Simmonds, Rachel Sargent, Justin Orwin and Keith Walton… Read more

See Catherine Simmonds et al’s publications

Keith Walton

I was born in Morecambe. When I was two we moved to Lancaster, where we lived over the tripe shop my mother ran. My father was greenkeeper at a local golf club. I went to the local grammar school - another world, that I was both drawn to and repelled by… Read more

See Keith Walton’s publications

Sebastian Hayes

Sebastian Hayes (a pen-name) spent an idyllic childhood in Africa. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English. Between the ages of twenty-five and forty he lived in France, first in Paris, then in Avignon and rural Provence… Read more

See Sebastian Hayes’ publications

Arnold Hinchliffe

Arnold Hinchliffe was born in 1922 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Huddersfield College and Manchester University where he took his M.A. in English Language and Literature. He served four years in the RAF (in Egypt, India, Burma and Malaya), then travelled around in Europe before settling down to a teaching and writing career in London… Read more

See Arnold Hinchliffe’s publications

David Grierson

David Grierson was born in 1950 in Northumberland and brought up in Greater London. After teaching music and drama in both state and independent sectors in the UK for more than twenty five years, he moved to northern China in August 2000 as part of the set up team for the new British international school in the city of Tianjin where he remained for three years… Read more

See David Grierson’s publications

JC Sledge

Chris Sledge was born in Leeds, the son of a University Lecturer. To his continuing regret he was sent to Rugby School, where his only achievement of note was to play cricket for the school at Lord’s. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Economics… Read more

See JC Sledge’s publications

Pam Kelly

Pam Kelly has written poetry all her life and still has little sentimental poems written when she was a tot, and longer, surprisingly adult and insightful poems written when she was eleven and twelve, some lines of which she occasionally steals for her work today. As a teenager she wrote songs and comic sketches for school productions… Read more

See Pam Kelly’s publications

MC Wood

M.C. Wood was born in Surrey in 1938 and has worked as a schoolmistress in a wide range of schools. Before retirement she was teaching 'A' level Art to girls… Read more

See MC Wood’s publications